The Center for the Humanities, along with colleagues from the University of Miami, would like to invite you to attend the public lecture, “Henry Christophe: King in a World of Kings” by Marlene Daut, Professor of French and African Diaspora Studies at Yale University. This program is the final of the academic year for the Henry King Stanford Distinguished Professors in the Humanities Lecture Series.

Slave. Revolutionary. King. Taken together, these words describe only one man: Henry Christophe I of Haiti. Born in 1767 to an enslaved mother on the island of Grenada, he first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to gain their freedom from France. Later, he offered to lead independent Haiti and made himself a king. But it all came to a sudden and tragic end when after only thirteen years of ruling, Haiti’s King Henry I shot himself in the heart, some say with a silver bullet. 

Marlene Daut teaches courses in anglophone and francophone Caribbean, African American, and French colonial literary and historical studies. Primarily a literary and intellectual historian of the Caribbean, she writes about the history of the Haitian Revolution, literary cultures of the greater Caribbean, and racial politics in global media, especially as appears in film and television.

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